NYT Obituaries

@NYTObits

A portrait gallery of people who shaped the world.

New York, NY

Joined October 2008

139Following

133KFollowers

Pinned

NYT Obituaries@NYTObits · 9 h

Jean-Pierre Azéma, a historian who became a leading chronicler of France’s dark days of wartime compromise, helping lead a shift in attitude about that period though he himself was the son of a notorious collaborator with the Nazis, has died at 87. nyti.ms/3GTKFzC

NYTObits's tweet card. He was among the historians who challenged national myths about the compromises his country made after being occupied by Germany in World War II.

312

NYT Obituaries@NYTObits · 2 h

Robert W. Fuller, who championed dignity over the evils of what he called “rankism” — and whose philosophy was that everybody is a somebody — has died at 88. nyti.ms/3IN7d5C

NYTObits's tweet card. He identified as a “citizen diplomat” and preached mutual respect because, he explained, “everybody is a somebody.”

326

NYT Obituaries@NYTObits · 3 h

Patrick Ryan, defrocked priest who abetted Irish Republican Army’s bombings, dies at 94: nyti.ms/4lPBNdw

NYTObits's tweet card. He funneled cash and weapons to the Irish Republican Army from Libya, and was involved in bombings that targeted Margaret Thatcher and others, killing scores of people.

319

NYT Obituaries@NYTObits · 4 h

Rex White, the oldest surviving NASCAR champion, who grew up in the rural Southeast where souped-up cars loaded with illegal moonshine were part of the stock-car racing circuit’s origin story, has died at 95. nyti.ms/4kSKDpv

NYTObits's tweet card. He dealt with the aftereffects of polio to become a prolific winner in the Grand National Series (now the NASCAR Cup) in the 1950s and ’60s.

361

NYT Obituaries@NYTObits · 5 h

Cleo Laine, one of England’s most acclaimed jazz singers and an actress who had a memorable Broadway turn as the proprietor of a London opium den in “The Mystery of Edwin Drood,” has died at 97. nyti.ms/4mcNdI2

NYTObits's tweet card. Known for a smoky voice that she could deploy over four octaves, she recorded albums across six decades and also had success as an actress.

633

NYT Obituaries@NYTObits · 6 h

Gary Smith was an Emmy Award-winning master of the TV special. He produced programs starring Barbara Streisand and Mikhail Baryshnikov; Democratic National Conventions; Tony and Emmy Awards shows; and the 1960s musical variety show “Hullabaloo.” nyti.ms/45lASvt

NYTObits's tweet card. A multiple Emmy winner, he helped create sophisticated shows for the likes of Barbra Streisand, Elvis Presley, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Ben Vereen, Burt Bacharach and Bette Midler.

2.0K

NYT Obituaries@NYTObits · 7 h

Jack McAuliffe, who in 1976 started the New Albion Brewing Co., which inspired thousands of craft brewers to follow in his footsteps, has died at 80. nyti.ms/3IIrSrz

NYTObits's tweet card. His New Albion Brewing Company, founded in 1976, was considered the first microbrewery. It set the model for thousands more to come.

375

NYT Obituaries@NYTObits · 8 h

Ozzy Osbourne, who helped invent heavy metal as the lead singer of Black Sabbath, has died at 76. nyti.ms/3GZcGWv

NYTObits's tweet card. As the lead singer of Black Sabbath, he helped invent heavy metal. On “The Osbournes,” he presented a comedic counterpoint to his rock ’n’ roll infamy.

301

NYT Obituaries@NYTObits · 10 h

Jewel Thais-Williams, who turned her Los Angeles night club, Catch One, into a glittering sanctuary for the Black L.G.B.T.Q. community, persevering through police raids, pushback from local bigots and a devastating fire, has died at 86. nyti.ms/45iT7l8

NYTObits's tweet card. Catch One, which she opened in Los Angeles in 1973 in the face of local animosity, became a glittering sanctuary for a largely shunned community.

262

NYT Obituaries@NYTObits · 11 h

Bill Clay, Missouri’s first Black congressman, was a co-founder of the Congressional Black Caucus and an uncompromising advocate for the poor. He has died at 94. nyti.ms/46wOIfL

NYTObits's tweet card. A co-founder of the Congressional Black Caucus, he represented St. Louis in the House as an uncompromising liberal Democrat and a forceful advocate for the poor.

278

NYT Obituaries@NYTObits · 12 h

Sarah Morlok Cotton, the last surviving member of a set of identical quadruplets who charmed Depression-era America as child performers and then took part in a landmark psychological study after being diagnosed with schizophrenia, has died at 95. nyti.ms/45a4GKn

NYTObits's tweet card. She was the last of four sisters who became a Depression-era sensation, performing onstage. Offstage, they endured abuse and were studied for their schizophrenia.

290

NYT Obituaries@NYTObits · 13 h

Thomas Anthony Durkin, a Chicago criminal defense lawyer who relished skewering the U.S. government as he represented unpopular defendants in national security, public corruption and civil liberties cases, has died at 78. nyti.ms/44Y9v9l

NYTObits's tweet card. He relished skewering the U.S. government as he represented unpopular defendants in public corruption and national security cases, like those at Guantánamo.

241

NYT Obituaries@NYTObits · 14 h

Roger Norrington, the English conductor who became a star of the historically informed performance movement by provocatively applying scholarly research to a broad expanse of the symphonic repertoire, has died at 91. nyti.ms/4kUfa6c

NYTObits's tweet card. His work, largely unknown outside Britain until late in his career, was often based on historical treatises. It was seen by many as refreshingly innovative.

249

NYT Obituaries@NYTObits · 15 h

Eileen Fulton, who enthralled and infuriated daytime audiences for half a century as Lisa Miller, the flashy vixen of the CBS soap opera “As the World Turns,” has died at 91. nyti.ms/4lMYXRO

NYTObits's tweet card. She was a mainstay of the long-running soap opera for 50 years — so long that she liked to say she led a double life.

256

NYT Obituaries@NYTObits · 16 h

With books and workshops, Joanna Macy helped others deal with the stress caused by climate change, inspiring them to take action instead of being paralyzed by despair. She has died at 96. nyti.ms/3IJ6Vg6

NYTObits's tweet card. With books and workshops, she helped others deal with the stress caused by climate change, inspiring them to take action and not be paralyzed by despair.

332

NYT Obituaries@NYTObits · 17 h

Ozzy Osbourne, who helped invent heavy metal as the lead singer of Black Sabbath, has died at 76. nyti.ms/3Usyg8L

305

NYT Obituaries@NYTObits · Jul 25

Malcolm-Jamal Warner, the actor who rose to fame as a teenager playing Theo Huxtable on “The Cosby Show” in the mid-1980s, has died at 54. nyti.ms/3Us5Mfk

NYTObits's tweet card. Warner, who played the only son of Bill Cosby’s character on the beloved 1980s sitcom, drowned in Costa Rica.

430

NYT Obituaries@NYTObits · Jul 25

From her 1962 debut in Wagner’s “Die Walkure” to her final performances, 30 years later, in Falla’s “El Amor Brujo,” Gilda Cruz-Romo was celebrated for a big voice that was also capable of singing quite softly. nyti.ms/3GERQvy

NYTObits's tweet card. Critics praised the natural way she used her voice to inject character into her roles. She had, one wrote, a sound “perfect for Verdi and Puccini.”

432

NYT Obituaries@NYTObits · Jul 25

Zelig Eshhar was an Israeli immunologist whose research in the 1980s and ’90s had a critical impact on immunotherapy that attacks certain cancers. nyti.ms/453gy0M

NYTObits's tweet card. He made a conceptual leap in immunotherapy by creating a hybrid T-cell, known as CAR-T, that was genetically modified to destroy cancer cells.

354

NYT Obituaries@NYTObits · Jul 24

Wearing his signature fedora and playing a fugel horn, Chuck Mangione won wide popularity and 14 Grammy nominations, winning twice, for his “smooth jazz” recordings in the 1970s. He has died at 84. nyti.ms/4f6dCEU

NYTObits's tweet card. Wearing his signature fedora, he won wide popularity and 14 Grammy nominations, winning twice, and scaled Billboard’s adult contemporary charts in the 1970s and ’80s.

458